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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

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Analyzing Huckleberry Finn: Boyhood to Manhood Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie once said, “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.” As one travels through the journey from childhood to manhood, one learns to focus more on individual assessments as compared societal values. In the bildungsroman The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the hero Huck, through his adventure from boyhood to manhood, discovers that the civilized society had taught him southern doctrines that went against his individual principles. Twain demonstrates Huck’s growth from childhood to adulthood, with respect to moral values, true friendship, and loss of innocence, in order to help readers connect their common experiences of growth with literature. The protagonist Huck undergoes complete moral transformation due to his experiences throughout his course of maturity. Huck first enters the novel as an adolescent outcast lacking religious and academic education. Although his caretakers, Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, try to reform Huck’s independent habits, he was tired of being told how to act. Huckleberry Finn only looks up to Tom Sawyer, a typical middle class adolescent indoctrinated with white social principles. When Tom Sawyer decides to create a group of robbers, Huck is excited to join on Tom’s adventures. However, one of the requirements of a participant is to agree with the murder of a family member if the rules of the gang are broken. Lacking a true family

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